Corn-sheller



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UNITED STATES PATENT EEtcE.

HARVEY PACKEB, OF ROOK FALLS, ILLINOIS.

CORN-SHELLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters'rPatent No. 263,804, dated September 5, 1882,

l Application filed August l, 1882. (No model.)

noishave invented certain new and useful Improvements in Corn-Shellers; and .I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it ap- Io pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and

to letters er iigures ot' reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention has more special reference to .1.5 what is known as power-shellers, although also applicable and advantageous to any sh eller which separates the shelled corn from thesilks,

husks, cobs, and other refuse. Y

My invention relates to a chain ot' peculiar zo construction and location, adapted to be used in the double capacity of a sieve and a carrier, the purpose being to separate or screen the shelled corn.

As the construction and relation of the dii'ereut parts of my improved sheller are shown in my application for a patent on other parts ot' such sheller, filed May 9, 1882, No. 60,826, and to which reference is here made, I do not deem it essential to herein show or describe any more of such sheller than is necessary to render intelligible the construction, location, and uses of such chain. W

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan View of the upper end of a separator embodying my Fig. 2 isu a sectional elevation of same in the line of Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a perspective view ot' a portion ofthe chain B. Fig. 4L is a bottom plan of the same. Y

As will be seen in Figs. 1 and 2, the chain 4o B 'is an endless one, carried on sprocket-pulleys, one ot' which, g, is seen. In the drawings are shown two of such chains B. On each side ot' cach chain B are arranged planes A A, sloping laterally toward such chain. The

planes A may or may not have the small perl for-ations a, as 'the chief' function of such planes is to deflect upon the chain B the discharge from the shelling devices. Any number ot chains B may be used, provided there 5o are two detlecting-planes A to each chain.

Thc'outcr ends of the planes A and chain B are elevated, as shown in Fig. 2, and thelo'wer ends ot' such planes and chain extend far enough under the shelling devices to receive the shelled corn, cobs, husks, silks, and other dirt in one conglomerate mass from such shelling mechanism. and planes A is to permit the shelled corn to pass through, and to carry the cobs and other refuse upward and cast them out over the elevated or outward end ot' such devices. The chain B is revolved longitudinally by means of the sprocket-wheel g, which is furnished with spurs g', in pairs, to tit the interstices of such chain. The wheel gis rigidly attached to the axle D, and is rotated by a d:rive-chain, E, which passes over and engages the sprocket-pulley F, the latter being tightly atlixcd to the axle l). The chain ,E -is actuated by a sprocket-wheel, Gr, seated firmly on the outer end of the axle ot' one of the shelling-wheels.

The chain B is constituted of open links (l, joined together on the same plane by; means ot the hooks b b, formed on the end of each link, and which engage the adjacent end bar ot' the next succeeding link. The interior space ot' each link is divided by the longitudinal bar c. The bar c is necessary in order that while using a chain of sufficient size to do the work the opening in such chain, while suftciently large lIhe purpose ot' the chain B to permit the passageot the shelled corn, may

link G readily passes, and thereby the chain B is rendered suficientlylexibleto pass around `its carrying-wheels.

pensed with by crooking the bars c.

As part of the function ot' the chain B is to carry the cobs and heavier refuse upward and discharge the same at theA upper end ot' the separator, about every third or fourth link U is furnished with upward-projecting spurs 7c k, which insert themselves among such cobs and refuse and prevent the same from slipping backward on the chain.

In the process of shelling corn the inter-4 mingled silks and` small pieces ot' husk, often The slots d may be disu IDO damp, and therefore adhesive and pliable, are

driven with great force into the openings of the screen,'and are so likely to ll such openings and choke the screen, as it is called, that heretofore no device has been put in use which satisfactorily performed the work of Screening" the corn under all conditions. No information in the premises could be had from machines for thrashing small grain, because the conditions so differed. In the one case the .proportion ot" grain was small, the refuse- 5. c., straw and chaff-dry, light, and easily blown out. In the corn-sneller the proportion ot' shelled corn was so great as to tend to carry with it into the holes ot' the screen the intermingled silks and husks. Through a clogged screen the corn could not pass, and the only remedy, and that but temporary, was to clear the screen ot' its impeding,` rubbish by hand. Thisnecessarily forced rn uch ofthedirt through the screen.

My device herein described has been tried for some time in machines which can shell over a hundred bushels an hour, and has thoroughly and satisfactorily performed the task allotted it.

The'advantage of a longitudinallyrotating,` chain as a screening-surface is that the chain is continually drawing away from under the .heavy discharge from the shelling` devices, thus presenting successively a new surface to such discharge, so that an accumulation is not allowed to gather at any one place on the screening-surface; secondly, the chain during halt" of its transit is inverted and any adhering matter thereby dislodged.

The longitudinal median loa-r e has two functions-first, to strengthen the chain in the line of its length, and, second, to form openings in the links C of the proper size for sifting or separating; the shelled corn.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States l. In combination with the shelling devices of a corn-Sheller, a chain, B, composed of fiat links l, constructed with longitudinal median bars c, and means for causing such chain to revolvelongitudinally,substantiallyas shown, and for the purpose described.

2. .In combination with the carrying-pulleys, the chain B, composed of open iat links, constructedvwith the bars e and slots d, whereby such chain is rendered flexible, substantially as shown, and for the purpose mentioned.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HARVEY PACKE Ri.

Witnesses:

THos. T. DAVIS, U. N. MUNsoN. 

